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Re: What is Aria?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Mar 4, 2009 9:20AM

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Randi < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> If you don't mind, can you explain what it is, or maybe provide a good link?

No worries. We sometimes dive right into technical topics here without
explaining what they are.

ARIA (stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications) is a protocol
being developed by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to improve web accessibility for advanced
and interactive web elements.

Here are some good sites to get you up-to-speed:
- http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Web_2.0_Accessibility_with_WAI-ARIA_FAQ
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/aria/faq
- and the protocol itself - http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/

Jared Smith
WebAIM.org